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V. FUMARIACE^. 



[ Corydalk, 



Fields ; rare. Kent, Essex, Cambridgesliire, &;c. We have now 

 reason to believe that the English plant is the same as Loisleur's; but 

 we still entertain doubts of its being truly distinct from the next, the 

 only essential difference, if that be constant, being in the greater 

 length of the pedicel. 



4. F. parviflora Lam. (least-Jlowered F.) ; sepals very minute 

 fruit obovate-globose slightly pointed or blunt, pedicel as Ion<» 

 as the bract, segments of the leaves linear channelled glaucous. 



a. flowers rose-coloured, E. B. t. 590. — )3. flowers white 

 tipped with dark purple. F. parvif. DC. 



Fields; rare, ©. 6 — 9, — The more common of these two mr^. 

 is that with white flowers. 



5. F. micrdnfha Lag. (smalhflowered i^.); sepals peltate orbi- 

 cular somewhat cordate at the base inciso-dentate at the margin 

 concave at the back about twice shorter than the corolla and 

 one and a half or twice broader, fruit globose subapiculate, 

 pedicels shorter than the bracts, segments of the leaves narrow 

 linear grooved. Hooli. Ic. PL t. 363. E. B. S. t. 2876. 



About Edinb., and in several other localities in the east of Scot- 

 Jand; Dover, Guildford, and New Burnham (Norfolk), in England. 

 0." 6 — 9. 



2. CoRYDALis Be Cand. Corydalis. 



' Pet 4, one of them gibbous or spurred at the base. Ovary 



many-ovuled. Pod. 2-valved, compressed, many-seeded. Seeds 



with a crest. — Named from KopvdaXig^ the Greek name for 



the Fumitory/, with which the present genus was, till lately, 

 united. « 



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1. C* solida Hook, (solid-rooted C.) ; stem simple erect with a 

 scale beneath the lower leaf, leaves 3 — 4 biternate their secrments 



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cuneate or oblong and as well as the bracteas cut, root tuberous 

 solid, style persistent. E. B. t. 1471. 



Groves and thickets : at Kendal (an old garden). Wickham, 

 Hampshire (perhaps wild); and near Birmingham. 2/.. 4,5. 

 Flowers large, purplish ; leaves glaucous ; seeds with a crest, in germi- 

 nation showing only one ovate cotyledon. 



'. 2. C.* lulea Lmdl. (yellow C.) ; stem angular erect, leaves 

 bipinnate, segments broadly cuneate cut or trifid, bracteas minute, 

 style deciduous, pods nearly cylindrical shorter than the pedicels 

 root fibrous. Fumaria: E. B. t. 588, 



On old walls in many places, but only where it had escaped from 

 cultivation. 2/L . 5 — 8. — Flowers yellow ; seeds with a concave crest, 

 in germination with two lanceolate cotyledons. 



3. C. claviculdta DC. (white climbing C) ; stem much branched 

 climbing, leaves pinnate, pinnae stalked ternate or pedate", 



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